Indian Palaeography c15.s1.27

c15.s1.27

This development of the alphabets reached its culmination later, when the regional languages developed and they became associated with one or the other script. That stage was a long way ahead. This chapter is concerned only with the process of change that the letters were undergoing at this period. This will be analysed, as in the last chapter, on the basis of three noticeable stylistic tendencies. The first was the result of a technical development, either in the use of new tools or in the new manner of using the old tools; the second was due to the taste for better or ornamental forms; and the third was dictated by a desire for speed and simplification, which is the real motive in cursive writing.